Army defends the belt, 42–7, at home over Penn State.
AP poll, week 4: Penn State unranked at Army No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Notre Dame. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 343 days into reign #99, which began with a win over Cornell, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Army went on to defend it 15 more times before Navy took it on December 2, 1950, 770 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Army leads 2–0.
About this game
Army defeated Penn State 42-7 on October 1, 1949, in the fourth week of the regular season. As the belt's defending champion, Army retained the title with the victory.
Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.
Sources Game record: College Football Data (id 29007) · This game in the downloadable dataset